Charts by Topic: Household activities

On an average day, women spent more than twice as much time preparing food and drink, almost three times as much time doing interior
cleaning, and four times as much time doing laundry as did men. Men spent more than twice as much time doing activities related to lawn, garden
and houseplants, and doing interior and exterior maintenance, repairs, and decoration as did women.
(Data are from the 2013 survey).

On an average day, 19 percent of men reported doing houseworksuch
as cleaning or doing laundrycompared with 49 percent of women.
Forty-two percent of men did food preparation or cleanup activities versus 68
percent of women. (Data are from the 2013 survey).